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KATINE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS PROJECT 

6 MONTHS PROGRESS REPORT (OCT 2007 TO MARCH 2008) 

Submitted to: The Guardian and Barclays 

Project Duration: Three Years. Oct 2007-Sep 2010 

Prepared by: Oscar Okech, Project Manager, AMREF Uganda 

Contact person in Uganda: Joshua Kyallo, Country Director, AMREF Uganda 

email: JoshuaK@amrefug.org 

Submitted by: Claudia Codsi, Uganda Partnerships Manager, AMREF UK 

email: c.codsi@amrefuk.org 

Photo: School boy in Katine 

KCPP six monthly narrative report - October 2007 to March 2008 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

ITEM Page 

Cover page 1 

List of acronyms 3 

Executive Summary 4 

1.0 BACKGROUND INFORMATION 8 

2.0 PROBLEM ANALYSIS 10 

3.0 PROJECT DESIGN 11 

3.1 Goal 11 

3.2 Specific Objectives 11 

3.3 Expected Outcomes 11 

3.4 Implementation Strategy 12 

3.5 Sustainability Plan/Phase Out Strategy 12 

4.0 PROGRESS OF ACTIVITIES 13 

4.1 Progress against planned activities 13 

4.1.1 Tabulated progress of activities against outputs and outcomes 13 

4.1.2 Overall performance 13 

4.2. Disparities in performance 20 

4.3 Unplanned activities that have contributed to the project 22 

4.4 Results obtained. Level of utilisation and outcomes against outputs 22 

4.4 Degree of integration of each component with the others 22 

4.6 Case Studies 26 

5.0 PARTNERSHIPS AND COORDINATION WITH OTHER BODIES 30 

6.0 CONSTRAINTS, SOLUTIONS, LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 27 

7.0 PLANS FOR NEXT PERIOD 

7.1 FINANCE REPORT SUMMARY 33 

8.0 ANNEXES 35 

8.1 Work plan for the next six months 35 

8.2 Detailed tabulated progress by outputs, outcomes and comments 35 

8.3 Project Governance Structure 35 


LIST OF ACRONYMS 

AIDS Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome 

AMREF UK African Medical and Research Foundation 

CBAHW Community Based Animal Health Workers 

CBO Community Based Organisation 

CMDs Community Medicine Distributors 

DDP District Development Plan 

DEO District Education Officer/Office 

DIS District Inspector of Schools 

DTPC District Technical and Planning Committee 

FGD Focus Group Discussion 

GDP Gross Domestic Product 

HC Health Centre 

HIV Human Immune-deficiency Virus 

HUMC Health Unit Management Committee 

IDPs Internally Displaced Persons 

IEC Information, Education and Communication 

IGAs Income Generating Activities 

ITNs Insecticide Treated Nets (for protection from mosquitoes) 

IMCI Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses 

KCPP Katine Community Partnership Project 

NGO Non-Governmental Organisation 

PDP Parish Development Plan 

PHASE Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Education 

PTAs Parents Teachers Association 

RBA Rights Based Approach 

RING Rural Innovation Group 

SCDP Sub-county Development Plan 

SCTPC Sub-county Technical and Planning Committee 

SMCs School Management Committee 

TBAs Traditional Birth Attendants 

TOR Terms of Reference 

UBOS Uganda Bureau of Statistics 

UGX Uganda Shillings 

UWESO Uganda Women’s Efforts to Save Orphans 

VHTs Village Health Teams 

VSLA Village Savings and Loans Association 

WATSAN Water and Sanitation 

WHO World Health Organisation 


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

Katine in Soroti 

district 

The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) in 

partnership with the Guardian News and Media and Barclays 

Bank, is delivering an integrated community based 

development project over three years in Katine sub-county 

within the district of Soroti. Here, residents live on just 50p a 

day. Katine is a sub-county with one of the worst health and 

living conditions in Uganda (Uganda population Census, 

2002), where extreme poverty has been compounded by years 

of civil war and cattle rustling. 1 Issues of poverty and violence 

are exacerbated by the fact that Katine communities are 

unable to access the services provided by local government. 

In response to the aforementioned obstacles, the Katine Community Partnerships Project 

(KCPP) focuses on improving the quality of living for the 25,000 people in Katine. At the same 

time, the project provides readers of the Guardian with the chance to see how civil society 

project interventions work to achieve long-term community development. 

With a budget of £2.6 million over 3 years, the KCPP addresses the key constraints to 

sustainable community development by taking an integrated and holistic approach. The 

specific objectives are: 

� Improved community health 

� Improved access to quality primary education 

� Improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene 

� Improved income-generating (also referred to as improving livelihoods)* 

� Communities empowered to engage in local governance 

*FARM-Africa is supporting AMREF to provide technical support for the livelihoods 

component of the project. 

AMREF applies its wider strategic aims and best practices to its development approach in 

Katine. This is achieved through building the capacity of communities, strengthening systems 

of service delivery and undertaking operational research to develop, share, scale up and 

advocate for best policy and practice changes. The approach also ensures that the project 

components of health, water and sanitation, education, livelihoods and community 

empowerment work to re-enforce each other for integrated development. 

The KCPP is aligned to the overarching Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) - the 

Ugandan national framework for poverty eradication. This project contributes to Goals 2, 4 

1 Cattle Rustling - or cattle raiding - is the act of stealing livestock. 


and 5 of the PEAP; (Goal 2: Increasing production, competitiveness and incomes, Goal 4: 

Human rights and governance, Goal 5: Human development). Goal 5 focuses on the 

importance of a well-educated, healthy and productive population as a prerequisite for 

developmental progress. The ultimate goal of the Uganda PEAP is to contribute to the United 

Nations’ eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2 . The other goals of the PEAP include 

macro-economic management and security, conflict resolution and disaster management, 

which are outside of the remit of the KCPP. (DFID in Uganda 

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/countries/africa/uganda.asp). 

The project targets children under five for health services, children in primary schools for 

education improvement and men and women for livelihood development and local political 

involvement. 

At AMREF UK, contracts with the project partners were drawn up, negotiated and signed with 

the Guardian and Barclays. A separate contract was signed with the sub-contracted partner of 

the project, FARM-Africa. A partnership manager was hired to co-ordinate and manage 

relationships in the UK and to support the team in Uganda. Much of the first six months of the 

KCPP have involved setting up the systems and processes to manage reader donations and 

to begin building relationships with these donors. AMREF UK established a partnership with 

DMP and then Valldata to manage the processing, banking and thanking of Katine reader 

donations and also set up the systems required to process online donations by adding the 

necessary functionality to the website. As part of AMREF UK’s responsibility to manage 

donor relationships AMREF sent the ‘Katine Newsletter’ to nearly 4,000 Katine donors who 

had asked to be kept informed of the project’s progress. 

In Uganda, the first three months focused on start-up phases and preparatory activities of the 

KCPP such as the implementation of key priorities that had been identified in consultation with 

communities and key stakeholders. A detailed needs-assessment along with two baseline 

studies were conducted as a means to ensure more accurate monitoring and evaluation of the 

outcomes and impacts of the KCPP. These included the community survey and the household 

baseline survey. 

The recruitment and induction of the now seventeen-member project implementation team 

took place at the start of the project. The team now includes a project manager, a project 

officer and a project assistant for all of the project areas bar the community empowerment 

component; although at the start of the project the full team was not on the ground, lacking a 

full time project manager and communications officer. Supporting positions for the project 

include monitoring and evaluation, communications, administration, accounts and information 

technology. All of the key personnel for the project are managed by the project manager, with 

AMREF Kampala Office, AMREF Nairobi Head Office and FARM-Africa providing technical 

support and guidance. The team shared resources in the existing Soroti office while 

2 The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS 

and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries 

and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s 

poorest. - http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ 


procurement of necessary project equipment and office construction took place. The team 

moved to the new office which will serve ultimately as the community resource centre in 

January of 2008. Project implementation gained full momentum within the second quarter and 

after six months the KCPP project was operating at full strength. 

Within the first six months, progress on activities under the health component included: 

� Training of 172 Village Health Team members (VHTs) from four out of the six parishes 

on home-based care of childhood diseases (104 were men and 68 were women) 

� Refresher training for nine health workers (five men and four women) in integrated 

management of childhood illnesses from the three health centres 

� A four day course training 23 members (five women and 18 men) of three health unit 

management committees on roles and responsibilities and enhancing supervisory 

skills 

� Training of 19 traditional birth attendants on early recognition of high risk pregnancies 

and danger signs with a view to improve referrals to health centres 

� Distribution of mosquito nets to 1308 households with children under five, out of the 

target of 3250 for the year in an effort to prevent malaria in vulnerable groups 

(pregnant women and children under five years) 

� 66 bicycles procured and distributed to VHTs in the parish of Ochuloi. The phased 

distribution of bicycles to VHTs in other parishes will continue upon completion of each 

VHT training. Bicycles will promote mobility and outreach to remote parts of Katine. 

Under the education component progress on activities included: 

� Training conducted for teachers, School Management Committees (SMCs) and 

Parents and Teachers Associations (PTAs) for improved community management of 

school learning, teaching, processes and governance 

� Provision of school supplies such as textbooks and the construction of classrooms in 

community schools, (five in Kadinya and seven in Amorikot primary schools) which 

started and are currently on-going. This will improve quality education, expand access 

so that more children enrol, and improve the environment to make it more conducive 

to learning. 

Under the water and sanitation component, progress on activities included: 

� Drilling of eight boreholes to increase access to clean and safe water benefiting 360 

households in villages of the following parishes: Ochuloi, Ojom, Olwelai, Merok, Abia 

and Katine. 

� Rehabilitation of five boreholes and concurrent water quality testing with functionality 

and utilisation of safe water sources increasing from 70% to 95%. These boreholes 

are located in villages of the following parishes: Katine, Ojom, Merok and Olwelai, 

benefiting 225 households and bringing clean and safe water closer to communities, 

reducing the average 2-4 km walk before the project’s interventions 3 . 

3 According to the Katine baseline survey 


� Water quality and water borne disease surveillance has been carried out in 21 sites. 

Safe water coverage has increased from 42% before the project’s interventions to 

56% 

� 240 sanitation kits were provided to the 6 parishes and 12 primary schools to promote 

hygiene and sanitation at home and at school 

� Establishment and training of 6 parish-level sanitation committees (one in each of the 

6 parishes) and three hand pump mechanics on operation and maintenance of water 

sources. They will work as a community owned resource person who can monitor and 

maintain the water sources. This has increased access to safe water for 1500 people 

Progress on activities under the livelihoods component included: 

� Formation and training of 18 farmer groups in 18 selected villages each comprising of 

30 self selected members, with 50% women representation, with a goal of serving as 

Rural Innovation Groups, integrating improved farming with other income generating 

activities 

� A diagnostic survey was undertaken in conjunction with NARO-Serere Agricultural and 

Animal Production Research Institute based in Soroti to identify priority enterprises 

and key technology interventions 

� On-farm demonstrations sites were identified and clearance done with an increased 

uptake of improved farming technology 

� Two crops (Cassava and Groundnut) were chosen as entry point to demonstrate 

improved varieties, production and marketing approaches 

The community empowerment component ensures there is a thread of integration that runs 

through all project activities. The key achievements under this component included: 

� The strengthening of community structures (such as PTAs, SMCs, VHTs etc) for all 

components of the project; 

� The establishment of IEC (Information, Education and Communication) working 

groups as a tool to support greater governance, steering committees at various levels 

and re-ignited functionality of existing committees in the sub-county; including 

membership of vulnerable people 

� The establishment of a Project Management Committee at the sub-county level and a 

Project Steering Committee 4 at the district level. Both committees are co-chaired by 

local leadership and AMREF, to lead project implementation, management and 

tracking. 

The Project Management and Steering Committees ensure that the project applies a bottomup 

approach where reporting requirements and relationships are driven upwards from the 

community. The sub-county Project Management Committee meets on a monthly basis and 

directly works with the Project Implementation Team to oversee the operational 

implementation of the project. The Project Steering Committee meets on a quarterly basis and 

is responsible for providing technical guidance and support to the latter. 

4 Please refer to the project governance structure, section 8.3 


In order to ensure greater integration between the project components, an effort has been 

made to foster significant collaboration in delivering health related activities through VHTs. For 

example, the health, water and sanitation and community empowerment project component 

used the same VHTs for the delivery of services, sharing information and joint training in order 

to achieve integrated activity execution. The education, water and sanitation (WATSAN) and 

health components worked jointly with the school health committees to promote hygiene and 

sanitation in schools. Community empowerment has worked in tandem with all other 

components in developing IEC messages on health, education and water for the development 

of posters, brochures, t-shirts, inscriptions in compounds and leaflets through focus groups at 

village level and IEC working groups at sub-county and district level reflecting all components. 

The project management and implementation structures from community to sub-county and 

district level also ensure effective integration takes place by reviewing progress on activities 

and outcomes. 

1.0 BACKGROUND INFORMATION 

1.1 Development Context in Uganda 

Uganda is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking 146 th out of 177 in the 2004 

Human Development Index. The population of Uganda is estimated at 28 million and life 

expectancy is only 49.3 years according to the World Health Organisation. A contributing 

factor to the low life expectancy in Uganda is the fact that 31% of the population currently live 

below the poverty line (UBOS 2007). 

In an effort to pull Uganda’s out of its poverty trap, the country has introduced a number of 

policy and institutional reforms which have seen the HIV/AIDS prevalence decline from 30% in 

the late 1980s to 6.1% in 2006. The Uganda AIDS Commission Report states that by 2002, 

new infections were 70,170 while new AIDS cases were 73,830 with 75,290 deaths per year. 

The high HIV prevalence is largely responsible for the loss of Uganda’s workforce, 

contributing to low economic productivity. Other improvements include access to safe water 

increasing from 50% in 2000 to 63% in 2006, primary school enrolment increasing from 62.3% 

(1992) to 86% (2006), GDP per capita growing at an average of 3.6% since 1995 (PEAP 

2006) and poverty prevalence falling from 56% in 1992 to 31% in 2007 (UBOS). In education, 

enrolment has increased due to Universal Primary Education (UPE) which was launched in 

December 1996 by the president of Uganda - Yoweri Museveni - in accordance with the 

Government White Paper on Education. In 2002, Museveni stated that the policy would 

ensure that ‘all children of school going age should benefit from UPE’ (Opulot, 2002). 

Enrolment figures after the launching of UPE shot up figures from 2.5 million in 2006 to 6.8 

million in 2000 (Ministry of Education and Sports 2001 b:1). Despite this progress, challenges 

still remain. There is inadequate participatory planning and poor human resource capacity 

within local government sectors. For instance, the doctor to population ratio in Uganda is 

1:18,000 (MOH) and in Katine sub-county, there are no doctors for a population of about 

25,000. There are also inadequate classrooms and teachers for the increased number of 

students enrolling in primary schools under Museveni’s initiative. 


1.2 Development context in the district of Soroti District 

Map of Soroti 

district and Katine 

sub-county 

Soroti District is located in 

Eastern Uganda. It consists of 

three rural counties (Kasilo, 

Serere and Soroti) and one 

municipality (Soroti Municipality). 

There are a total of 17 subcounties, 

including three 

divisions of the 

municipality. According to a 2002 

census, the total population of 

Soroti District is 371,986. Now 

peaceful, the district is 

considered a post-conflict area 

with recent periods of insurgency 

and cattle rustling which 

depleted the number of animals 

and other valuable property. 

Internally Displaced People (IDPs) have returned to their communities and a resettlement plan 

is underway. The main economic activity is subsistence farming (76% of households 

according to the UBOS 2002 Census Report), cattle rearing and petty trade. Poverty 

prevalence is at 77%, compared to the national average of 31%. (UBOS, Mapping the Poor, 

2004) 

Malaria is the leading disease burden in Soroti District, contributing to 96.72% of reported 

morbidity. Only 19.1% of the population lives within 5km of a health facility, far lower than the 

national average of 49%. HIV/AIDS remains a key challenge with prevalence from the two 

Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) sites at 20.3%.(MOH). 

Education conditions in Soroti district, like the rest of Uganda, are still far from realising the 

minimum standards set by the National Government. By 2005, Soroti district had a primary 

school enrollment of 130,585, with 65,196 boys and 65,389 girls. The total number of teachers 

was 2,198. The pupil to teacher ratio stood at 1:59 while the desired minimum standard is 

1:54. In addition, the pupil to classroom ratio is 1:83 where the minimum standard is 1:54. 

Soroti still needs approximately 200 trained teachers to meet the increasing number of 

children joining primary school every year. 

In 2005, Soroti district had 17,932 orphans constituting 14% of the total enrollment in primary 

schools. 9,058 of them were boys and 8,874 were girls. There were 4,253 disabled children 

enrolled by 2005, 2,239 of them were boys and 2,014 were girls. The high numbers of the 

children in these vulnerable categories pose a demand for conscious targeting. 5 

5 (Source: Ministry of Education- Uganda, EMIS data 2005) 

www.education.go.ug/abstract%/202005/primary accessed on 08/05/08 


According to the district records, safe water coverage in Soroti district stands at 76%, which is 

in fact well over the national average of 65%. The functionality rate of the installed water 

facilities is at 89%. Results from the AMREF EU project survey done in 2007 indicate that 

latrine coverage is at 68%, also above the national average of 65%. According to the District 

health inspectorate however, the biggest challenge is the lack of budget support to the 

Environmental Health Division for Sanitation Promotion, emphasising the need for a financial 

lobbying strategy. 

As much as the government has strengthened decentralisation in Uganda - with the subcounty 

as the lowest unit of development planning and implementation - this has almost 

exclusively emphasised the supply side of governance. Citizens have remained passive to 

events and public decisions that affect them. The need for citizens to actively engage in public 

decision making on matters that affect them and demand for their rights is imperative. 

According to district reports, there is low community participation in local government planning 

and implementation in Soroti. Therefore there is a pressing need to empower communities to 

effectively engage in local governance issues across sectors. This is so important because 

only 68% of the population are literate, 48% of households own a radio and 49% of the 

population depend on word of mouth to get information (UBOS, 2002 Census report). 

1.3 Development Context in Katine sub-county 

Katine sub-county is part of Soroti district. It has one of the worst records for poverty and 

underdevelopment among the 17 sub-counties and 3 municipality divisions in the district. A 

comparison of Katine indicators with that from the 2006 Uganda Demographic and Health 

Survey shows that overall baseline conditions for the Katine population are worse than the 

average for rural areas of the country. 

In light of this, the KCPP strives to improve the quality of life of the estimated 25,000 people in 

Katine. The project’s integrated approach will simultaneously address various project 

components of better health, access to education, access to safe water, increased incomes 

and active citizen participation for decision making in local governance. 

2.0 PROBLEM ANALYSIS 

When AMREF addressed project priorities with the sub-county and district leaders, needs 

were identified in the areas of health, education, water and sanitation, livelihoods and 

community empowerment. 

A household survey was conducted by AMREF in January 2008 to assess the needs further 

whereby the results of the survey demonstrated that the overall baseline in Katine sub-county 

were uniformly poor 6 . For example, Tiriri health centre IV has no medical doctor and has a 

well equipped but non-functional operation theatre. Access to safe water in Katine was at 

42% and latrine coverage was at 44%. In some parishes, like Olwelai, latrine coverage was as 

6 Katine household baseline executive summary, page 2. The baseline survey was conducted by AMREF with support from 

Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) 


low as 24%. The school drop out rate was at 19% for boys and 22% for girls and the pupil to 

classroom ratio was at 91:1. Also, 16% of children aged 7-12 are orphans. 

Livelihoods, which depend mostly on agriculture, have been disrupted by 20 years of internal 

conflicts and cattle rustling. There was a rebellion by the Uganda Patriotic Army in Teso 

region (where Soroti is based) from the late 1980s to the early 1990s combined with an 

incursion by the Lords Resistance Army from the Acholi region of Northern Uganda into Teso 

region from 2003 to 2006. 

Due to poverty, marginalisation and the disconnection between the formal governance system 

and the community, the population seldom participates actively in decision making processes 

in local government. The low indicators stated in the baseline survey suggested a community 

in critical need of empowerment with information, tools and basic inputs so that they could 

improve their own capacity for making a positive difference to their lives. 

3.0 PROJECT DESIGN 

3.1 Goal 

To improve the quality of life of the people of Katine 

3.2 Specific Objectives 

� Improved community health 

� Improved access to quality primary education 

� Improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WATSAN) 

� Improved income-generating 

� Communities empowered to engage in local governance 

3.3 Expected Outcomes 

Health 

� Increased community awareness, access to and utilisation of health services in 

community and health facilities 

Education 

� Improved access to quality primary education for all children and greater community 

involvement in school governance 

WATSAN 


� Increased community access to and utilisation of improved water and sanitation 

facilities 

� Improved hygiene practices in households 

� Improved operations and maintenance of water sources 

Livelihoods 

� Recovery of livelihoods through diversified and improved sources of income 

� Stronger ability of rural institutions to access both advisory services and markets for 

their products for increased production and income 

� Community demanding and achieving their rights and services 

Community Empowerment 

� Increased community capacity to plan and budget for community needs 

� Stronger community capacity for data gathering and utilisation 

3.4 Implementation Strategy 

AMREF uses three overarching strategies in all of its projects throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Community Partnering: The project’s entry point into the community is through partnering with 

existing groups and community structures. The aim is to empower communities to take full 

supervision of their development process and ensure sustainability beyond the life of the 

KCPP. 

Capacity-Building: This aims to develop the human resources and service delivery systems in 

both the communities and local governments to manage development projects. The 

development of these local institutions and organisations enhances effectiveness, 

sustainability and local ownership. 

Operations Research and Advocacy: The project will monitor and evaluate progress, 

document lessons learnt and share them with others. Lessons learnt from this project will be 

used to inform and influence policies and practices in health and development sectors among 

governmental and non-governmental partners. 

3.5 Sustainability Plan & Phase-Out Strategy 

The KCPP builds on existing community based and local government structures. Some of 

these structures include village health teams, school management committees, parent-teacher 

associations and water source committees. In addition, KCPP also works with parish 

sanitation committees, sub-county thematic groups, hygiene and sanitation working groups, 

sub-county water and sanitation steering committees, health centre unit committee, farmer’s 

forums and community animal health workers. The community structures have different roles 


and responsibilities but are inter-linked in their execution. For example, VHTs sensitise 

communities and collect sanitation and hygiene data while the parish sanitation committees 

mobilise communities to dig pit latrines and ensure a clean environment in their homes. The 

project empowers communities to take ownership by strengthening their capacity and 

enhancing their performance. Some structures, like Village Savings and Loans Associations 

(VSLA) 7 , have a multiplier effect because more will be formed after the project has ended 

based on the success of what has already been achieved. AMREF’s planning is also shared 

with and incorporated into the sub-county and district development plans and annual reports. 

If the KCPP can demonstrate successful initiatives, the strategy is to influence district and 

sub-county governments to incorporate continued project work into their budgetary plans. 

The KCPP works with parish development committees, a sub-county project management 

committee chaired by the sub-county chief and co-chaired by the AMREF Deputy Country 

Director. The project also collaborated with a district steering committee which is chaired by 

the Chief Administrative Officer who is the head of civil service at the district level. This role is 

relevant for effective partnership and sustainability as it is co-chaired by the AMREF Country 

Director. In addition, a national advisory committee chaired by AMREF and other 

stakeholders, line ministries and a global partners committee in the UK adds to the impact of 

the district steering committee. These are the structures that have been put in place to 

manage the project and to ensure that decision making is a bottom-up and participatory 

process. Over the course of the KCPP, AMREF will work with project partners to develop exit, 

scale-up and sustainability strategies. 

4.0 PROGRESS OF ACTIVITIES 

4.1 Progress against Planned activities 

4.1.1 Tabulated table of progress of activities with outputs, outcomes and comments for 

disparities (see annex 2) 

4.1.2 Description of overall performance 

Improved Community Health 

To improve the household health status, the Ministry of Health recently introduced a strategy 

of VHTs composed of community volunteers. Their role is to provide basic home-based care 

and mobilise communities for health action. Unfortunately, the reality of this strategy is that 

VHTs are not yet fully functional. The KCPP has trained 172 VHT members from four of the 

six parishes in Katine sub-county (41 of the 66 villages in Katine sub-county) in home based 

care of childhood diseases. Of these, 104 (60%) were men and 68 (40%) were women. They 

were trained in strategies to prevent and control malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, diarrhoea 

and sanitation practices. In so doing, the project expects to increase the number of referrals 

from the community to the health centres as well as to improve diagnostics at the household 

level. Additionally, the project has procured 130 bicycles for the VHTs. In the first six months, 

66 bicycles were distributed to VHTs which are used for transport, home visits, collection of 

supplies from health centres and the submission of monthly health status reports to health 

7 The role of VSLAs and the integration with KCPP will be reported on in the next reporting period 


centres. Bicycles are also being used for transporting severely ill people from villages to 

health centres. The remaining bicycles will be given to the VHTs after their training is 

completed. Some of the purchased bicycles needed repair due to brakes and lights not 

functioning properly and will be distributed once repaired. 

High risk groups for malaria infection and its complications include children below five years of 

age, pregnant women and people living with HIV/AIDS. The KCPP’s baseline survey revealed 

that mosquito net coverage was 48% in Katine. In an effort to reduce malaria, 3250 Insecticide 

Treated Nets (ITNs) were procured. Since the inception of the KCPP, 1308 ITNs have been 

distributed to 1308 households in Ochuloi, Merok, Katine and Ojama parishes. Each 

household was targeted for net distribution because it was home to at least one child under 

the age of five. Children tend to sleep together under one net so a single bed net may benefit 

more than one child. Distribution of nets to children under the age of five, pregnant women 

and people living with HIV/ AIDS will continue into the next quarter of the project. Regular 

visits by VHTs to households ensure that those most vulnerable to malaria (the target groups) 

are using the nets regularly and correctly. The project works closely with the existing health 

system ensuring that information is shared. This is important because the KCPP wants to be 

certain future ITN distribution from other sources does not target the same individuals as this 

project. During net distribution, VHTs sensitised communities to ensure that there was positive 

health behaviour change (aiming to ensure the target groups did sleep under an ITN). 

As a result of capacity gaps the delivery of quality services among health centre staff and 

inadequate facilities at the health centres, the project conducted refresher training in outpatient 

care for nine staff members working in Katine HC II, Ojom HC II and Tiriri HC IV. It 

also conducted a four-day residential training for the three Health Unit Management 

Committees of Tiriri HC IV, Katine HC II and Ojom HC II. The project found these committees 

already in place. 23 members attended, of which five were women. All the committees have at 

least one women member. They were trained in their roles and responsibilities, equipped with 

supervisory skills, quality assurance techniques and trained in planning for health services. 

Immunisation equipment and supplies such as children’s weighing scales, vaccine carriers, 

bicycles, chairs and tables were also provided to Ojom HC II and Katine HCII. 

To improve on the quality of maternal and neo-natal care services, a three-day refresher 

training course was held for 19 Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) already existing within the 

community (all the six parishes), all of whom were women. They were trained in early 

recognition of high risk pregnancies, pregnancy danger signs, HIV/AIDS, prevention of mother 

to child transmission of HIV/AIDS (PMTCT), immunisation, record keeping and knowledge on 

how to conduct safe and clean deliveries. Referral records at the health centres show that 

several referrals have been made from the community by TBAs since their training. 

Improved access to quality education 

The household baseline survey revealed that 75% of primary school going age (6-12 years) 

children are currently attending school; lower than the 81% for all rural areas. Gender equity in 

the ratio of boys to girls enrolled has only been achieved in Merok parish while the widest 

gaps were in Katine/Ojama and Olwelai. 


KCPP conducted a community survey which revealed that the learning environment at 

schools in Katine was poor. Statistics are indicated in the table below: 

Ministry of Education Standards (6) 

Learning 

Environment: 

School 

Performance and 

Needs 

Number of 

schools meeting 

national target 

What is needed 

for all 13 schools 

to meet the target 

Pupil to 

teacher ratio 

< 54:1 

Pupil to 

classroom 

ratio < 54:1 

Pupil to 

textbook 

ratio < 1:1 

Pupil to 

desk ratio < 

3:1 

6 2 0 0 0 

12 teachers 42 

classrooms 

2,000 books 1,411 desks 13 

Meet all 

four 

targets 

As part of the project intervention to improve the learning environment, the project has 

provided text books to Ojama and Oimai primary schools, including thematic charts and books 

for lower primary. The text books will increase access and participation of pupils in class. In 

addition, construction of new classrooms in Amorikot and Kadinya primary schools is currently 

on-going. These were the KCPP’s first priority since they had wattle and grass classrooms 

and offices. In addition, these schools were created by the community and do not have any 

additional support from the local government. 

The KCPP has trained twelve teachers (11 men and one woman) and 120 parents (69 men 

and 51 women) in the development of materials that facilitate teaching and learning for six 

primary schools. The schools targeted are Katine, Katine-Tiriri, Adamasiko, Merok 

(government schools) Amorikot and Kadinya (community schools). Refresher training to 

strengthen linkages between schools and the communities as well as to promote personal 

hygiene and sanitation education were conducted for Ochuloi, Amorikot, Kadinya, and Olwelai 

Katine primary schools. 41 teachers attended these training sessions. Teachers were trained 

in thematic curriculum, children’s’ rights, the Presidential initiative on HIV/AIDS, strategies for 

communicating to youth, child to child teaching methodologies, local materials, material 

development, personal hygiene and adolescent reproductive health. As a result, these schools 

have put up tippy taps 8 , re-activated health parades in school and increased observation for 

the general hygiene of pupils. 

Four primary schools had SMC and PTA structures but had limited knowledge on their 

respective roles and responsibilities in school management. SMCs are statutory committees 

mandated by government policy on primary education to manage schools together with the 

school administration. In contrast, PTAs - responsible for school development programmes - 

are voluntary associations formed by parents and teachers. The SMC has 12 executive 

members while the PTA executive has nine. As a response, the KCPP has conducted training 

for 12 SMCs and nine PTAs per school. The goal is to improve community management of 

8 Tippy Taps are locally made taps from small jerricans that are filled with water and tipped to wash hands 


school learning, teaching processes and governance for Obyarai, Merok, Ojago and Ajonyi 

primary schools. 

Two SMCs of Amorikot and Kadinya primary schools have been trained on monitoring school 

construction. Currently these groups are in charge of monitoring and supervising 

the classroom constructions. They also participate in school meetings. These groups, who 

have taken ownership of school management, will increase community participation and 

involvement as well as accountability for these institutions. Quality education will ensure that 

children acquire skills in writing and reading. For this to be realised, children deserve a 

conducive learning environment that includes proper classrooms, seating facilities, sanitation 

and hygiene facilities, proper learning materials and well trained teachers. 

In order to build the links between the project, schools and the district, cooperation is vital. 

The District Inspector of Schools (DIS) along with the centre for coordinating tutors of Katine 

sub-county worked closely with the Programme Officer (PO) for AMREF to provide support, 

supervision and follow up of teacher training in all thirteen schools in Katine. They also 

conducted consultations with communities, children, PTAs and SMCs to develop a community 

participatory monitoring tool (checklist) to monitor progress. Special attention was paid to 

school sanitation and hygiene, personal hygiene, school infrastructure and facilities, academic 

performance and administration in schools. This support team also collected school data and 

developed a database for Katine schools to feed into the district data information management 

system. This data pipeline will enhance the tracking of educational trends in order to facilitate 

better planning and ensure effective and efficient service delivery. 

AMREF conducted an advocacy forum with women teachers as role models for girls in four 

Katine schools. The advocacy forum was designed to improve the support and role modeling 

provided to girls in schools. During this exercise AMREF noticed inadequate representation of 

women teachers in Katine schools especially in the community schools, where only two 

schools among the targeted four had women teachers. Amorikot primary school, for example, 

did not have a single women teacher. The need to address this issue was raised and the 

District Education Officer (DEO) responded immediately by mobilising the parents to identify 

eligible women (untrained) to fill the positions. These teachers will be trained on how to 

promote education for girls in order to curb the number of girls who drop out of school. By 

reaching out to teachers and parents to resolve issues relating to girls dropping out of school, 

the project hopes to promote education, improve retention and drop out rates. 

Children’s events were conducted to mark National Sanitation Week from 17 th to the 22 nd of 

March 2008. During these events, a series of activities to promote sanitation and proper 

hygiene were conducted throughout Uganda. AMREF supported the various sanitation and 

hygiene activities that took place in Katine sub-county. The event, which was led by children 

who are promoted as carriers of these messages to their communities, was characterised by 

music, dance, drama and demonstrations. These activities served to strengthen the links 

within institutional learning (schools and health centers) and provided continuity in community 

approaches to sanitation and hygiene practices. 

Improved access to water, sanitation and hygiene 


The community survey revealed that no school met the standard of a latrine stance for pupils 

(calculated separately for men and women pupils). A stance, or stall, is a single room of a 

toilet. A toilet or latrine may have more than one stance. 

Three schools, with a total of almost 1,000 pupils had no latrine stances at all making them 

unsuitable for operation as they did not meet the minimum standard of a school. Two of these 

schools are community-owned. 

The table below is a summary of the water and sanitation needs in the thirteen schools in 

Katine by parish (as revealed by the community survey): 

Table 1: School water facilities needed in Katine sub-county 

Parish No. of schools in Latrine stances Hand washing Rain water harvesting 

parish 

needed 

facilities 

facilities needed 

Ojom 3 24 2 1 

Olwelai 3 14 4 1 

Merok 2 16 3 2 

Katine 2 22 1 0 

Ochuloi 2 26 3 1 

Ojama 1 10 1 0 

Total 13 112 14 5 

Interventions to address the requirements in the baseline survey will be done in the 

subsequent quarters of the KCPP. 

The project is addressing needs of latrine coverage and access to safe water for the pupils in 

schools and communities. Thirteen panel toilets with a total of 52 stances in the primary 

schools of Ojago, Amorikot, Merok, Ojama, Oimai, Kadinya, Adamasiko, Ojom, and Olwelai 

are currently under construction. Five 10,000 litre rain water tanks have been installed in the 

schools of Oimai and Merok in Merok parish, Ojago and Ajonyi in Ochuloi parish and 

Adamasiko in Ojom parish to improve access to safe water. Apart from Ojago, which is a 

community school, the other schools are government-run. The schools not directly targeted by 

the KCPP, such as Amorikot, also benefit from the project since they now have access to 

clean water through community boreholes drilled nearby. With these interventions, the pupils 

in the above schools will have access to hygienic pits latrines and safe water for drinking while 

at school which will reduce incidences of water-borne diseases. The interventions will also cut 

back on the time children are forced to take off from school in order to collect water. 

The most common source of drinking water for Katine residents at the start of the KCPP, as 

revealed by the household survey, was unprotected wells. These were the primary sources of 

drinking water in 29 villages. Unprotected wells are open wells which are prone to 

contamination by animal or human faecal matter. The second most commonly used source 

was boreholes (primary source in 20 villages). Some villages, mostly in Merok parish, 


mentioned using the swamp as their second water source. Nine villages had the greatest 

distance of 3-4 kilometres. This reality is not in line with the government recommended 

walking distance of 1.5 kilometres to travel to collect water. 

As part of the project intervention, 5 boreholes have been rehabilitated in Katine and Ajobi 

villages in Katine parish, Adamasiko in Ojom parish, Merok in Merok parish and Olwelai in 

Olwelai parish benefiting 225 households. 8 new boreholes were drilled in Obyarai A and 

Omodoi in Ochuloi parish, Ominit and Matali in Ojom, Amorikot in Olwelai, Omulai in Katine 

parish, Abata in Merok parish, and Abia in Ojama parish (benefiting 360 households). District 

and sub-county consultative meetings were held where baseline data was shared and used to 

prioritise areas of need. Community consultative meetings and advocacy took place where 

decisions were made on the above sites for drilling the boreholes. This has increased safe 

water coverage from 42% to 56%. In addition, water quality and water-borne disease 

surveillance at 21 sites have been carried out. KCCP anticipates that this intervention will 

reduce water-borne diseases like diarrhoea and typhoid which are common in the Katine 

community. 

The household baseline survey revealed that half of the surveyed households did not have a 

latrine and instead used the bush or plastic bags which they disposed of in bushes near their 

home. Seven out of ten households in Olwelai and six out of ten in Ochuloi did not have a 

latrine. Of the households that did have a toilet facility, 42% had a pit latrine without a slab and 

6% had a pit latrine with a slab. Latrine coverage was highest in Katine/Ojama (68%), followed 

then by Merok (58%). In response to these findings, the project has provided 240 sanitation 

kits to all 6 parishes in Katine sub-county and primary schools. These kits included wheel 

barrows, pick axes, machetes, axes, hoes and spades for latrine excavation. A follow-up of 

60 households that received a sanitation kit revealed that 33 had completed latrine digging 

and had handed over these kits to the next villages. 

The community survey also revealed that 3 villages unanimously reported they had a trained 

water user committee and one village (Obiol) had hand pump mechanics. The KCPP was able 

to facilitate three sub-county health committee meetings for the months of January, February 

and March to discuss progress of water and sanitation component activities. The project also 

established and trained 6 parish sanitation committees - one from each of the six parishes. 

The KCPP established and trained three hand pump mechanics on operation and 

maintenance of water sources to cover the six parishes and equipped them with protective 

wear, tool kits and bicycles for transportation. 

Monitoring of water usage informs us that, due to this intervention, the functionality of water 

sources has increased from 70% to 95%. The result of this increase is an improvement in 

community access to safe water for 1,500 people in Katine sub-county. 

Improved Income Generation 

Farming groups have been formed in 18 selected villages from six of the parishes. Each of 

these groups has 30 self-selected members and includes both men and women with a guiding 

criterion of 50% gender representation. The selection criteria require community members to 

be actively engaged in farming and have a desire to improve production and marketing. The 


aim is to serve as Rural Innovation Groups (RINGs), integrating improved agricultural 

production and marketing with other income generating activities. These groups also function 

as VSLAs, integrating the financial inclusion model into their farming and other income 

generating activities. The groups have undergone training ranging from wealth ranking to 

identification of technology gaps. The training was in response to the findings of the 

community consultative meetings and baseline survey which indicated that most of the groups 

were not functioning optimally due to inadequate capacity building. Capacity building initiatives 

require group leadership, financial management, group dynamics, group visioning, record 

keeping, participatory monitoring and evaluation in order to be successful. There was also a 

need for experience-sharing programmes to enable Katine residents to better manage their 

group affairs and access markets for their agricultural products. KCPP endeavours to provide 

more training sessions to help these groups realise the possibility for improved sustainable 

livelihoods. 

At the start of the project, two villages had a marketing association. Marketing associations 

provide community members with easy access to credit services for improved production and 

marketing of their products to customer bases. In response to this, the project has also started 

linking the Katine farmers to the wider markets outside of Soroti to maximise opportunities for 

inclusion into national market chains and so achieve greater profit margins for agriculture. 

Additionally exposure to national markets will support future developments in processing 

produce locally for added value, for example cassava flour. 

According to the AMREF Community Survey Report, the majority of community members rely 

on agriculture as their main source of income. In addition, farmers have been engaged in the 

art crafts, brewing, casual labour, charcoal sale, fishing, petty trade, mining and livestock 

trade. Training for skills development in some selected income generating activities in 

additional to increase income from agriculture will give the farmers an opportunity to have 

multiple sources of income, attaining improved and sustainable livelihoods. 

A diagnostic study, done in conjunction with NARO-Serere Agricultural and Animal Production 

Research Institute, identified the main food security and income generating crops as cassava 

and groundnuts. The KCPP is focusing solely on improving the productivity and marketability 

of these crops for the first 18 months of the project. A participatory review will then be 

conducted to support farmers in adopting other enterprises that have market potential. 

Communities Empowered to Engage in Local Governance 

� Existing decentralised government structures such as district health teams, district 

water and sanitation coordination committees, sub-county technical planning 

committees, sub-county health committees, village health teams, health unit 

management committees, school management committees and parents teachers 

associations are targeted by the KCPP. The aim is to ensure effective project 

implementation and sustainability through these groups. 

� Other structures such as Information Education Communication (IEC) working groups, 

sanitation working groups, hygiene working groups, operation and maintenance 

working groups and farmers’ groups have been formed by the project. These groups 


were designed to reinforce existing structures above them, especially at 

implementation level. 

� Project governance structures, including the Project Management Committee (at subcounty 

level) and the Project Steering Committee (at district level) were formed to 

manage and support project implementation and sustainability. This will be achieved 

through closer links and between the community groups and local government 

structures in responding to developmental priorities. 

� IEC is one of the main KCPP strategies for creating awareness about community 

rights to basic services like health, education and water. They reinforce sensitisation 

and education of communities during community meetings, trainings and outreaches. 

Development of IEC awareness messages for radio programmes, posters and leaflets 

were carried out in order to increase the community’s knowledge of health, education, 

water and sanitation. Other key IEC messages were developed together with subcounty 

and district local government partners. Although the VHTs also play a key role 

in bringing key health messages to the community. 

� A district stake-holder’s meeting was conducted to update local government and NGO 

partners about the project. During this meeting, a working relationship with the 

partners was discussed and agreed upon. The stakeholders’ meeting was held on 

April 3 rd , 2008 at Soroti Hotel and was attended by a total of 66 participants (15 

women and 51 men). The attendants included district partners, sub-county 

representatives, district political representatives, NGOs, representatives from AMREF 

UK, AMREF Headquarters, AMREF Country Office and KCCP project staff. During the 

meeting, some of issues raised included AMREF’s continued support of the Traditional 

Birth Attendants (TBAs) despite government policy to phase them out. Another issue 

was the absence of secondary school interventions in the KCPP when Katine has only 

one that needed assistance. There was also concern surrounding a lack of indicators 

for the community empowerment component. Also, some members wanted 

clarification on the criteria for selecting borehole drill sites. For livelihood activities, 

members were concerned as to why the project chose cassava and groundnuts as 

priority crops when these are locally available in Katine. In addition, members 

identified a gap in the baseline survey since it lacked information on HIV/AIDS for 

youth and children. Another issue raised was the delay in launching the project as well 

as the short (3-year) project lifespan. 

� The above issues which were clarified by the project implementation team will be kept 

in mind and where possible addressed during the course of project implementation. In 

addition, a stakeholder inventory was developed and is being used for coordination 

and mobilisation to strengthen networking. 

4.2 Disparities in performance, why and how they will be addressed 

Improved community health 

The VHT structure was set up more than three years ago but has not yet proven to be stable 

and effective. There are challenges associated with the members selected by the community 

because some of them cannot read and write in their local languages. The VHTs will therefore 

be allocated roles according to their level of competency by the district health teams. For 

instance, those who cannot read or write are allocated mobilisation roles such as conducting 


home visits, sensitising household members on good sanitation practices, encouraging 

mothers to immunise their children and promoting antenatal care. 

AMREF found that most of the TBAs are illiterate and are unable to read hand-outs. As a 

result, relevant IEC materials need to be developed for them and there needs to be greater 

supervision of their activities. 

Improved Access to Quality Education 

Construction is still in the early stages of casting the slab for seven classrooms, one office and 

a store room in Amorikot primary school. The same holds for the five classrooms, one office 

and store room in Kadinya primary school. Completion of construction is expected within the 

next six months. 

Procurement and fabrication of desks has been finalised. However, the plans to furnish the 

new classrooms await completion of construction. Training on child-centered teaching 

methodologies, personal hygiene and sanitation education was not fully conducted due to a 

lack of time as teachers were caught up in school activities. This will be done in the next three 

months as the holiday period starts where we hope to work alongside teachers. 

Improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene 

None of the five planned ECOSAN toilets were constructed due to time spent in the 

procurement and delivery of both local and manufactured materials for construction work. 

Construction will be completed within the next six months. In the same way, AMREF had 

aimed to finish construction on 13 panel toilets; construction commenced and all 13 will be 

completed within the next three months. 

The 40 sanitation platforms that the KCPP planned to build were not provided to support 

household coverage for latrine construction. This delay is attributable to the need for more 

time in allowing pits to sink. This will be done in the next six months. 

Springs were not protected nor rehabilitated within the first six months. Identification of sites is 

on-going - three have been planned. This is attributed to time spent in identifying perennial 

springs in the sub-county. There are a number of seasonal springs; however, those that are 

perennial and recommended for protection require studying and monitoring throughout the dry 

seasons. Those that sustain high flow yields in the dry seasons will then be identified and 

recommended for protection. This will be done in the next six months. 

AMREF had planned to construct four shallow wells. Construction is on-going and will 

continue into the next two quarters. 

Improved Income Generation 

Farmer-led participatory market research (PMR) was divided into two stages. First, market 

visits by the livelihood staff took place, followed by farmer visits to the identified market to 


document market information for planning. The first stage has been completed while the 

second stage will be undertaken in the next six months. 

Training on group capacity building did not take place as the groups were still in the formation 

process. This will be done in the next six months. Delays in the implementation of activities 

partly were partly attributable to one of the livelihood assistants leaving. There were also 

inefficiencies in the original management strategies and relationship between FARM-Africa 

and AMREF which are now being addressed and so that substantial catch-up and win-win 

activities will occur in the next 6 months. 

Communities Empowered to Engage in Local Governance 

Village level focus group discussions on pre-testing the applicability of IECs did not take 

place. This was due to a delay in holding district stakeholders update meeting but is replanned 

in the next reporting period. 

Procurement of IEC materials were delayed due to IEC messages not being completed. This 

activity has been re-planned for next reporting period. 

AMREF staff training on Rights Based Approach (RBA) did not take place due to lack of 

availability of a trainer. This has been re-planned for the next reporting period. 

4.3 Unplanned Outcomes in the Reporting Period 

� The construction of the Soroti-Lira road by government using a Chinese company has 

provided local labour employment, boosting the local economy. It has also raised 

hopes for development in the sub-county. The price of land for farming and plots for 

building has also increased by 100% due to the added value of the road. An acre of 

farmland used to be worth £31 but has now doubled to £63 according to local 

landowners. The trading centre is 34 kilometres away and the sub-county is spread 

along the stretch of this road, which is also a highway to the heart of Northern Uganda. 

Heavy trucks use this road for economic transportation. However, with their transport 

comes an increased risk of spreading HIV/AIDS along the highway since truckers base 

themselves in towns along their routes. (Uganda AIDS Commission) 

� The government’s ongoing extension of piped water from Soroti to Kaberamaido 

district (pipeline passes through Katine) is raising hopes of boosting sanitation, 

hygiene and the functionality of service facilities and production in cottage industries. 

Hence, there is a rapid increase in private sector investment in buildings. 

4.4 Results obtained. (Level of performance by utilisation, outcomes and impact as a 

result of outputs) 

4.4.1 Improved Community Health 

� There have been increases in the number of children accessing immunisation services 

within Katine as well as a reduction in ill-health and death from the eight killer 

childhood diseases through health centre reports. This accomplishment is the result of 


meetings with health staff to address the gaps in immunisation. The procurement of 

four children’s weighing scales, two vaccine carriers, four bicycles, four chairs and four 

tables has also contributed to supporting these services. 

� Currently, the VHT members are conducting community sensitisation sessions on 

health promotion messages in the communities. These messages include better care 

and urgent referral of children on home based care of fever and diarrhoea. The KCPP 

keeps track of this progress by using their up-to-date database on ITN usage and 

target populations conducted by the 172 KCPP-trained VHTs. 

� There is also improved reporting of deliveries by TBAs at health facilities, more active 

participation of TBAs in health promotion activities such as child health days and 

reduction in delayed referral by the TBAs as a result of training of nineteen TBAs out of 

twenty-six known to exist. 

� There have been improvements in management of staff with associated reduction in 

conflicts between staff and members of the management team and better quality of 

meeting minutes as a result of training of twenty-three Health Unit Management 

Committees in the three health units. 

� The KCPP has also seen an improvement in reporting at the health facilities by the 

Community Medicine Distributors due to sixty-six bicycles given out to VHTs for their 

work. 

� There is increased coverage in mosquito net use and reduction in the number of 

malaria episodes among children below five years of age due to distribution of 1,308 

ITNs to 1308 households. This increased household ITN coverage by 27% 9 . 

Community sensitisation on ITN use has also been conducted. Based on the project 

baseline survey report, it is expected that if properly and consistently used, the number 

of malaria cases in children under five years of age will reduce. The project is in the 

process of tracking the number of malaria cases reported at the health facilities in 

order to establish the impact of the ITN distribution in the community. 

4.4.2 Improved Access to Quality Primary Education 

� More teaching and learning materials are available in the schools as a result of the 

training of 120 parents and 12 teachers on local teaching materials development. This 

is expected to improve teaching and performance by pupils. 

� Improved school sanitation reflected in presence of hand washing facilities, wellmaintained 

latrines and school compounds due to training of 41 teachers in Personal 

Hygiene and Sanitation Education. 

� Enhanced participation of children and parents in hygiene activities and promotion of 

good sanitation as a result of 15 schools, 130 parents and 150 children and teachers 

participating in the national sanitation week using music, dance and drama to enhance 

personal hygiene and sanitation messages. 

� Anticipated retention of girls is expected especially in upper primary as a result of 

conducting advocacy forums in four schools for women teachers to become role 

models for girls according to the baseline survey and tracking school enrolment 

records. 

� Improved school governance and management through understanding roles and 

responsibilities of the different governance bodies and increased parent and 

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community involvement in the development of the schools due to training of 27 PTAs 

and 48 SMCs. 

� Narrowed the textbook pupil ratio gap from 1:10 to 1:4 thus improved learning and 

teaching. 

� Increased participatory monitoring by communities and other stakeholders due to 

establishment of committees to oversee school construction in Amotikot and Kadinya. 

� Expected improvement in the learning environment (better hygiene, more space) and 

reducing the pupil ratio from 1:91 to 1:54 upon completion of construction of 12 

classrooms. 

� Coding and registration of examination centers of Amorikot and Kadinya schools will 

be done because they now qualify by virtue of infrastructure in place. 

� Improved sanitation conditions in the schools and reduction in incidence of 

communicable disease infestation such as diarrhoea and reduction in pathogens in 

the local environment. 

� Anticipated increase enrolment of children, especially girls, due to the construction of 

toilet and washroom facilities in the above schools. 

� Strengthened school management, classroom teaching and school data management, 

reflected in active PTAs, SMCs due to vigilant support supervision. 

4.4.3 Improved Access to Safe Water, Hygiene and Sanitation 

� Functionality and utilisation of clean water sources increased from 70% to 95% due to 

rehabilitation of five existing boreholes 

� Improved school sanitation as 27 pit latrines have been sunk and construction ongoing 

due to provision of sanitation kits to schools. 

� Promotion of household hygiene and sanitation practices as a result of distribution of 

sanitation kits to communities 

� By-laws on water and sanitation have been proposed by sub-county health committee 

and enacted by the sub-county council. An example is the compulsory presence of pit 

latrines in all the house-holds of Katine. 

� Improved data collection and submission due to training of 6 parish sanitation 

committees and one hundred and thirty two Village Health Teams. 

� The project contributed to the increased functionally of water sources due to the 

establishment and training of 12 water source committees. 

� All repairs on water sources completed by the three trained hand pump mechanics 

and the water sources are now all in use. 

� Hygiene and environmental improvement messages have been targeted based on the 

water quality reports from the 21 surveillances done. 

� Integrated the project water and sanitation plans into the district water sector plans 

due to participation in the district water and sanitation coordination committee 

meeting. 

� Improved coordination with other partners due to best practice sharing meetings. 

4.4.5 Communities empowered to engage in local governance 

� Increased awareness on rights and development due to IEC messages for all 

components. 


� Improved coordination due to formation of project management committees at subcounty 

and district levels. 

� Improved governance, mobilisation and community participation in local decision 

making due to strengthening of existing governance structures, creation of new ones 

at community and local government level. 

� Increased integration of the various project components due to working in a 

coordinated manner. 

4.5 Degree of integration of each component with other components 

4.5.1 Improved community health 

� Identified and shared roles of VHTs among health, WATSAN, community 

empowerment components. 

� Trained VHTs in collaboration with WATSAN component on sanitation and hygiene 

promotion. 

� Trained teachers on personal hygiene along side the education component. 

� Worked with community empowerment component to develop IEC messages for use 

by VHTs for promoting health education. 

� Worked with education and WATSAN components to form school health committees. 

4.5.2 Improved access to quality primary education 

� Training in Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Education linked and strengthened the 

WATSAN activities from the community and schools so that there is consistency in 

knowledge, attitude and practices in schools and in the community 

� Promoting adolescent reproductive health in schools and linking up with the services 

being strengthened by the health component. 

4.5.3 Improved access to safe water sanitation and hygiene 

� Incorporated the WATSAN hygiene and sanitation promotion in the training of VHTs. 

Also to include use of the VHTs in collection of data related to hygiene, sanitation and 

water supply in their villages. 

� Sanitation promotion in schools in collaboration with the education component. 27 pit 

latrines dug in schools as a result of provision of sanitary kits. 

� In conjunction with health and education, using the school health committees in 

planning and implementation of school health and sanitation activities. 

� Pre-tested the IEC materials in conjunction with community empowerment component. 

4.5.4 Improved income generation 

� Worked with the community empowerment component during the establishment of 

livelihoods groups at village level that will be feeding into higher level structures at the 

sub-county and district. E.g. The sub-county livelihoods forum. 


4.5.5 Communities empowered to engage in local governance 

� Established a community structures inventory that reflects different local structures that 

are used by different components. Some structures such as Village Health Teams and 

sub-county technical planning committee are shared among health, water and 

education. This is expected to result into effective coordination and networking among 

various community groups and hence ensuring sustainability of the project. 

� Developed key messages on health, education and water through focus groups at 

village level and IEC working groups at sub-county and district level reflecting all 

components. 

4.6 Case studies 

Drilling of Omulai borehole: A life time dream come true for Akwango Lucy 

Born in 1960, Akwango Lucy was married and lived in Omulai 

Village, Katine Parish in Katine sub-county for 30 years. 

For the last 29 years she has been collecting water for 

drinking, cooking, bathing and all domestic chores from 

Omulai swamp which had an open well, about two kilometres 

from her home. 

Lucy says “…that whenever it rained flood water would fill the 

open well in the swamp.” Because of this, in 2000 the district 

local government constructed a shallow well in the area, but 

insects (worms) are seen regularly coming out of the well. 

Many users complained about worms which led to frequent 

diarrhoea and stomach pain and diseases like bilharzias 

whose presence in both children and adults was revealed 

through medical examination. 

Lucy cites one woman, a mother of seven children whom she said “developed a swollen 

stomach in 2007 as a result of worms. She was examined and is required to get treatment in 

Soroti town but for one year now she has failed to get funds for medical treatment.” 

Lucy says, “Cases of this nature are common in the village given the long history of drinking 

dirty water.” 

According to Lucy, in 1990 an old man died in the village. His death was caused by drinking 

unclean water. 

“In 2004 a child named Eboku died as a result of drinking insects from the shallow well,” Lucy 

says. 


Lucy is a mother of nine children raised under these conditions. Her second born Opio 

Richard is 27 years old Together with other village members Opio Richard became the voice 

of the community. They initiated a request when they learnt about AMREF support to Katine 

community last year in October. As a result Omulai borehole was drilled on 24 th January 2008. 

To Lucy: “This borehole looks like a dream. I never expected that there would be such an 

opportunity like this one during my life time. 

“Now there is improvement in the lives of community members. Cases of stomach pain are no 

more.” 

She adds, “Distance from home to water source is now short and as a result less time spent 

collecting water and more time spent on economic activities like gardening.” 

Besides, Lucy says, “Cases of irregular schooling are no more for children since water source 

is now near and majority of children are not sick of water related diseases any more.” 

According to local council one chairperson of the village Mr. Etemu John Stephen, about 500 

community members collect water from this borehole with more women benefiting in terms of 

numbers than men. 

“This has made community members to save money formally used for treatment of water 

related diseases. Apart from malaria, sicknesses that used to be common like diarrhoea are 

no more,” he says. 

After construction of the borehole, water source committee members were trained and tasked 

with responsibility of managing the water source. It comprises nine members four of whom are 

women. 

Lucy thanked Barclays and the Guardian for accepting to fund this project and AMREF for 

implementing it in Katine. 

4.5.2 Education case study 

Engendering education - Ameo Grace of Amorikot Community School Education 

Grace Ameo is one of the two women teachers of Amorikot community school. She was 

posted as a teacher to the school on 27 th February 2008 and the first women teacher to join 

the staff of the community school as a result of AMREF lobbying the DEO. She is not married 

but has 3 dependants that she takes care of, John, Jane and Emma. John and Jane are both 

in Senior 1 (about 15 years old in Katine) and Emma is in primary 5 (about 13 years old in 

Katine) Grace says that her joining the school filled the gap of senior woman teacher. This is a 

position that is critical for girls especially in primary schools in Uganda. A senior woman 

teacher in a school is responsible for providing guidance and counseling sessions for girls at 

the same time educating girls on their growth and development. Adolescence for primary 

school girls is a critical period and yet the ‘aunties’ who used to provide this education to girls 

in the community are no longer doing it. Mothers feel embarrassed to talk to their girl children 

about sexuality. When they have children in school they hope that the senior lady will play 


these roles. Difficulty in copying with adolescent reproductive growth changes have 

constituted one of the major reasons to prolonged absenteeism which eventually leads to drop 

out of girls before they complete the primary education cycle. Grace automatically became the 

senior woman teacher since there was no other women teacher to handle the girl-child issues 

at school. Asked how she has improved the situation of the girls at her school, Grace 

responds: 

‘I have tried to advise them on how to deal with their menstrual cycles. Due to my constant 

advice on personal hygiene and sanitation, HIV/Aids, early pregnancies and peer 

pressure, most of them have tried to change and therefore willing to complete the primary 

cycle’ 

Grace is grateful for having attended one of the workshops organized by AMREF in 

partnership with the district education department on adolescent reproductive health 

counseling. This is because she has been able to acquire more skills to support girls in her 

school. She is happy with the current construction of new classrooms, latrines and bathrooms, 

she is convinced that this will improve the sanitation conditions in the school and enable girls 

to have a decent place to change and bathe whenever the need arises. She plans to train her 

pupils on making sanitary pads from local materials so that they can have enough to take 

them through their menstrual cycles and still have some emergency ones kept at school. She 

acknowledges that the presence of the new borehole just 50 metres away from the school will 

enable the girls to access clean water easily for bathing. 

Grace believes that through the other interventions of classroom construction, teacher training 

and training of the school governance bodies, the school will become attractive to the pupils 

because they will be able to benefit from being in school, hence education becoming 

meaningful and relevant to them. 

Right: Grace in front of the new block under construction 

Left: Grace in front of the old community school 

Amorikot 


5.0 PARTNERSHIP AND COORDINATION WITH OTHER BODIES 

The project continued to work alongside parish, sub-county and district counterparts in the 

departments of health, water and sanitation, livelihoods, education and community 

empowerment, as well as Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Community Based 

Organisations (CBOs) in all its activities. These include: 

i) Existing community networks 

ii) Government structures 

iii) NGOs and CBOs who share the same vision and objectives such as 

Transcultural Social Organisation (TPO) and Uganda Women’s Efforts to Save Orphans 

(UWESO). 

5.1 Improved community health 

� Shared work plans with district health team. 

� Invited district officials to facilitate, open or close workshops. 

� Involved the ‘in-charge’ of the health sub-district and village leaders in verification and 

selection of VHTs. 

5.2 Improved access to quality primary education 

� Shared work plans with the district education department and at sub-county level with 

the Centre Coordinating Tutor and the Secretary for education. 

� Worked closely with Inspector of Schools in charge of Katine in all activities. 

� Worked with the Primary Teachers College on teacher training. 

� Worked with PTAs and SMCs to involve parents in planning and development of 

schools, e.g. feeding programme for children. 

5.3 Improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene 

� Participated in the district water and sanitation coordination meeting that brings 

together various stakeholders. 

� Participated in the best practice sharing meeting on safe water provision organised by 

AFRICARE in which domestic water treatment methods used by AFRICARE in their 

project area of Gweri sub-county (in Soroti district) were shared. The meeting 

questioned whether this is sustainable since it involves the use of manufactured 

reagents ‘PURE’ and this requires financial input from the communities daily. 

� Participated in national sanitation week celebration during which sensitisation of 

communities was carried out both at parish and village levels and emphasis laid on the 

following; acceptable pit latrines with privacy, presence of anal cleansing materials and 

safe hand washing facilities after latrine use, observance of personal, domestic and 

food hygiene. 

5.4 Improved income generation 


� Shared work plans with the district and sub-county technical team. 

� Conducted a diagnostic livelihoods survey with NARO-Serere. 

� Planned jointly with NARO-Serere to establish field demonstration farms 

� Planned jointly with UWESO/CARE on the financial inclusion model (VSLA 

methodology.) 

� Worked with the sub-county extension staff and community leaders in implementation 

of field activities. 

5.5 Communities empowered to engage in local governance 

� Stakeholders meetings held, one for the district and one for the sub-county, to update 

the partners about KCPP. 

� Participated in health sector working group at district level. 

� Involvement of the district and sub-county partners in sharing of work plans, 

developing of Terms of Reference and training guides. 

� Mobilisation of parish chiefs and other structures for all project components to 

participate in KCPP activities. 

� Formed district IEC working group and held meetings to develop IEC messages. 

6.0 CONSTRAINTS, SOLUTIONS, LESSONS LEARNT AND RECOMMENDATIONS 

6.1 Improved community health 

6.1.1 Constraints 

� The ability to read or write in the local language is among the criterion that is supposed 

to be followed by communities when they are selecting VHT members. This is so 

because VHTs are expected to have several different records kept, reviewed and 

submitted to their supervisors. However, a small but significant section of the current 

VHT members cannot legibly write in either English or their local language. These 

individuals have been in the rather dormant VHT structure and it is not easy to 

disqualify them as their community entrusted them with such work. Furthermore, they 

have continued to show interest and commitment to continue with such voluntary work. 

� The supply of anti-malarial medicines and Oral Rehydration Salt for the home based 

management of fever and diarrhoea at the health facilities is irregular. 

6.1.2 Solutions 

� Performance of Community Medicine Distributors will be monitored and evaluated 

based on the decline in the number of severe cases of malaria seen at the health 

facilities, and number of malaria cases treated by VHTs within 24 hours of the onset of 

fever. 

� The project should attempt to lobby the district to improve supplies of anti-malarials. 

� Communities should be sensitised on roles for which they elect their representatives. 

6.1.3 Lessons learnt 


6.1.4 Recommendations 

� VHTs need to be strengthened for long-term sustainability of the project. 

6.2. Improved access to quality primary education 


� Taking away teachers for training during schooling periods is counter productive. Yet 

during holidays some teachers are out of station, studying or visiting their families in 

other parts of Uganda. 

� Delays in receiving requests from schools. 


� Combine residential training of related topics for teachers to maximize time available 

� Request submission of school requests annually and not quarterly 

6.2.3 Lessons Learnt 

� Integrate the education activities with the school calendar such that activities are done 

jointly and in a complimentary manner. This will maximise the use of scarce resources 

and increase participation. 

6.2.4 Recommendation 

� Conduct school-based training for teachers during term-time. 

6.3 Improved access to safe water sanitation and hygiene 


� There are negative attitudes by the community towards new concepts like ecological 

sanitation driven by cultural considerations. For example, that it is taboo to screen and 

use human faecal matter for agriculture. 


� To enhance acceptance of the new technology, the ECOSAN activity is being 

implemented with a community based approach where the local masons have been 

identified and trained in the respective sites to be able to construct the ECOSAN 

facilities. Advocacy meetings have also been conducted in the respective schools in 

which the ECOSAN concept has been demystified to the community leaders and the 

school health committees. 


� Continuous sensitisation of communities can strengthen their capacity to prevent 

disease at community level and improve their standards of living. For example, a follow 

up of 60 households of community leaders during the sanitation week revealed that 33 

households sunk pit latrines within one week. This achievement, once sustained, can 

promote safe excreta disposal and together with other factors mitigate the high 

incidences of diseases in communities brought about by poor sanitation practices. 



Attitude and behaviour change is a process and needs to be emphasised for sustainable 

interventions. 

6.4 Improved income generation 


� High community expectations e.g. everybody wants to belong to a group 

� Season-dependant activities e.g. trials/demonstrations are affected by seasons and 

dictated by weather. 

� Core staff resigning shortly after recruitment, inefficient and unclear management 

structures between AMREF and FARM-Africa 


� Other community members to be accessed through farmer to farmer approaches 

� Undertake group capacity building programmes and group-based work concurrently 

� Timely planning with relevant partners 

� Streamlined management structures in place to optimise shared resources and 

capacities within and between AMREF and FARM-Africa. 

6.4.3 Lessons Learnt 

� The community has fully embraced project ideas and has shown willingness to actively 

participate in their own development. An example is where in each of the 9 villages 

suggested to participate in on farm trials /demonstrations the community willingly 

offered a piece of land as their bit of contribution. In addition, farmers in the villages of 

Odwogai, Ojemorun, Adamasiko (all in Ojom Parish), Ojwiny (in Merok Parish) have 

gone ahead to prepare the gardens. 

� Community’s conviction that through improved farming and organised produce 

marketing, their lives can improve. This was revealed during the diagnostic survey of 

technology and enterprise priorities. The conviction is based on the fact that more than 

90% of the Katine community view farming as their key source of household income. 


� Livelihoods should be strengthened and its implementation done faster to catch up 

with other components as its key to the integration, success and sustainability of the 

project. 

� Strengthen operations and coordination with FARM-Africa, CARE and UWESO. 

6.5 Communities empowered to engage in local governance 



� In an integrated project, delay or failure to implement one major activity can greatly 

affect implementation of other activities tagged to it. For example, there was a delay 

in holding the district stakeholders meeting consequently affecting the other district 

level activities. 

� If implementation of component activities takes place at the same pace, more 

benefits of integration can be realised. For example, the construction and use of 

ECOSAN toilets will produce manure for use in livelihood led community 

demonstration gardens and school gardens. This will improve crop productivity and 

boost school feeding programmes hence improve nutrition and health. 


� More emphasis needs to be put on integration of components 

� Strengthen the incorporation of Rights Based Approach to Development into all 

components of the project. Development in the rights based perspective is about 

empowering communities to demand for and protect their rights, making the duty 

bearers accountable to the community. This is important for ensuring sustainability of 

the project. It also puts responsibility on citizens to be active actors in their 

development and not passive recipients of development aid or charity. 

7.0 PLANS FOR THE NEXT PERIOD (see annexes) 

7.1 FINANCE REPORT SUMMARY (to be read in conjunction with the finance report) 

Six months into the project AMREF has spent 33% of the total year 1 budget. The lower 

expenditure is partly due to the fact that the first three months were focused on projects start – 

up activities and a partial team on the ground, with the Communications Officer and a full time 

Project Manager starting after project start-up. Now that the project start-up is completed, 

project spending is expected to increase as activities pick up speed. 

Below is a breakdown of each of the budget lines with an explanation on expenditure to date, 

outlining any reasons for under/over spends against the budget. 

PROJECT ACTIVITIES (1.0-9.0) 

� Core team salaries: spending is in line with the budget considering the project start up 

period. There was an over-spend on drivers seconded to support external visits and an 

under-spend on staff roles who started after the project was launched. 

� Project activities: the delay in project activities, resulting from a partial team in Katine, 

are under spent at the midyear point, but expected to increase in lined with our project 

plan, and as activities are now fully underway. 

� Health activities, much of the expenditure was focused on training courses for the 

TBAs, VHTs, health workers and health unit management committees. Some of the 

hardware components include the purchase of bicycles, purchase of drug storage kits 

for the medicine distribution and the purchase of 3250 ITNs which is reflected in this 

budget line. 


� Education activities: costs up until March costs were focused on procuring school 

supplies, running training and capacity building sessions with teachers, PTA and 

SMCs. Much of the spending on construction materials for classrooms, desks and 

seating will be visible in the next finance report. 

� WATSAN: 43% of the budget spent, in line with the budget as as much of the funds 

were spent on procuring and installing hardware. This included drilling and 

rehabilitation of boreholes, purchase of sanitation kits, payment for borehole 

contractors and training sessions of the hand pump mechanics. 

� Livelihoods, 22% of the budget has been spent; this funding for activities including like 

the formation and training of farmer groups, the coupling of farming with other income 

generating activities, the implementation of a diagnostic survey and on-farm 

demonstrations sites being carried out. 

� Community empowerment Just 3.59% of the budget has been spent on training 

sessions, development of IEC working groups, strengthening of community structures, 

and establishment of working groups. There have been some delays in activities as 

outlined in Section 4.2. Much of the costs will be expended in the next reporting period, 

including the costs of IEC materials being produced. This budget line also related to 

the community resource centre which will be accessed by and belong to the 

community once the project ends. The costs for construction were posted in May, and 

will appear in next report. Relationships with communities set up, communities 

structures in place, and expenditure expected to pick up. 

� Project operational costs spend is at 69%, higher than expected at the mid point. This 

is high because of significant increases in fuel costs for Katine cars; as a result of the 

increased costs in fuel incurred by the Kenya crisis in December and January and 

partly due to the many external project visits to the site. 

� Project capital costs: 86% is a fair report on spending 6 months into the project, as 

much of the capital costs happen at the start of a project. Overspends include satellite 

internet installation in January when the office move took place, double the expected 

costs. This is a necessary expense given the media focus on this project and need for 

information and communications from the field. Security tagging for equipment was 

more expensive than anticipated. On office administration, much of the costs such as 

equipment maintenance and office supplies will be reflected in the next 6 month report. 

� Project Management Costs: Spending is as expected and in line with the budget, it 

includes county office staff time and that of a consultant’s to provide AMREF with the 

project management tools and guidelines from the project’s inauguration. 

� Monitoring & Evaluation: Such costs are as anticipated, including the baseline survey 

and a consultant to analyse the data and compile a report. 

� UK Project Management: These costs are in line with spending at 33.12% with an 

overspend in legal fees due to an extended contract negotiation period. Much of the 


first six months of the Katine project have involved setting up the systems and 

processes to manage, bank and thank Katine reader donations. It also includes the set 

up the systems required to process online donations by adding the necessary 

functionality to AMREF UK’s website. AMREF UK also sent the ‘Katine Newsletter’ to 

nearly 4,000 Katine donors who had asked to be kept informed of the project’s 

progress. These costs are reflected in the budget line. 

� Contingency and agency support costs: contingency was not used, and agency 

support costs are as expected. 

8.0 ANNEXES (attached as separate files) 

8.1 Work plan for the next six months (see attached) 

8.2 Detailed tabulated activity progress by outputs, outcomes and comments (see attached) 

8.3 PROJECT GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES AND ROLES IN UGANDA AND IN UK 

The project governance structure is managed at four levels: the sub-county/project, the 

district, the national and the global. It is community-driven from the bottom-up. 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (SUB-COUNTY LEVEL) 

Role: Involvement and concern over the operational and day-to-day implementation of the 

project. 

This committee meets monthly on the first Friday of every month. It is chaired by the subcounty 

chief and co-chaired by AMREF’s Deputy Country Director. Those involved from 

AMREF include the project manager and the project officers (Health, Education, Watsan, 

Liveihoods, Community Empowerment, Communications and M&E.) 

The sub-county membership aims to include: 

� Assistant Community Development Officer (ACDO) 

� Area inspector of schools 

� Sub-county National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) coordinator 

� Health assistant 

� County water officer 

� Representatives of special interest groups (PLWHA, Women, Youth and People with 

Disabilities) 

In attendance (co-opted): 

� Local Councilor IIIAMREF Uganda Country Director 

� Project presenters – project assistants 


� Representatives of other partners e.g. NGOs in the Katine area 

Responsibilities include: 

� Involvement in the operational details of the project, supervision of implementation, 

development and review of work plans 

� Ensuring equal participation and representation of lower structures 

� Addressing community involvement, empowerment and governance at the operational 

level 

� Participating in evaluation processes 

� Preparing technical project reports to be presented to the steering committee at the 

district level 

� Mobilising communities and resources in local communities 

� Identifying risks and recommend mitigation strategies 

� Identifying gaps, priorities and key areas of intervention 

� Supporting the project in identification of beneficiaries 

� Identifying areas for media coverage and engagement 

� Mobilising communities to engage in local community based documentation through 

the use of approaches like community-based management information systems. 

DESIRED OUTPUTS: 

Reports stipulating: 

� Action points and recommendations 

� Overall project progress 

� Component specific technical reports 

Reporting Guidelines 

� Reports will be produced on a monthly basis 

� These reports will be incorporated into the general sub-county report to the district 

PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEE (DISTRICT LEVEL) 

Role: To provide technical guidance and support to the project management committee. 

This committee will meet on a quarterly basis and will be chaired by the district chief 

administrative officer. AMREF will co-chair and provide the secretariat support for the same. 

The chair is the Soroti Chief Administration Officer (who reports to the executive/council), the 

co-chair is AMREF Uganda’s Country Director, while the secretariat includes AMREF (to be 

led by the Project Manager). 

AMREF Membership: 

� Katine project manager 

� AMREF in Uganda Deputy Country Director 


District membership: 

� District Education Officer 

� District Health Officer 

� District Water Officer 

� Community Development Officer 

� Production coordinator 

� Assistant Chief Administrative Officer – 1 

� District Information Officer 

In attendance (co-opted but not mandatory): 

� Local Council V Councilor Katine (x2) 

� Sub-County Chief 

� NGO forum representatives (x2) 

� KCPP project officers as and when required as presenters 

Responsibilities include: 

� Receiving and reviewing project progress reports and provide technical input and 

guidance 

� Producing minutes and reports to be shared with the country advisory committee 

� Enhancing coordination between the project and district plans, progress and policies to 

ensure long term sustainability 

� Mobilising/leveraging resources from the district in support of the project 

� Identifying strategic and policy-related issues for the country advisory council 

� Providing a platform for a local voice in development and media debates 

Reporting requirements 

� This committee will meet every first Friday of each quarter. (First meeting was 

scheduled for 04 July 08, but held on 14 th July 2008) 

� A comprehensive project progress report disseminated to the country advisory 

committee, donors, etc. These progress reports are to be produced by a secretariat 

provided by AMREF. It is mandatory that these reports include any issues and 

recommendations. 

Desired outputs: 

� A comprehensive project progress report disseminated to the country advisory 

committee, donors, etc. These progress reports are to be produced by a secretariat 

provided by AMREF. It is mandatory that these reports include any issues and 

recommendations. 

Administration of this committee 

� Voluntary participation and engagement 


� Expression of commitment and ownership of project intervention 

� The secretariat meets administrative costs, e.g. meals. 

The purpose of the meetings will be guided by; 

� The fieldwork of the district steering committee, governed by the GoU standing orders 

� The functioning of KCPP in compliance with the central government and Soroti local 

government regulations 

� Commitment to technical guidance and development support to Katine 

� The need for a clearly stipulated community contribution 

PROJECT ADVISORY COMMITTEE 

This exists at the national/country level, comprised of the AMREF Uganda country director (as 

chairperson), the AMREF Uganda Deputy Country Director, key contacts in the line ministries, 

as well as representatives of Barclays, PANOS, and FARM-Africa. The role of this committee 

will be to provide high level partnership management support, monitor the media output at 

national level, inform the project on the GoU policies and guidelines as well as monitor and 

evaluate the project progress. 

At the global level is a governance committee that will be comprised of the leaders of all the 

partner organisations involved in this project (i.e. AMREF, Guardian, Barclays and FARM- 

Africa). This committee will meet quarterly and will be informed on project progress by the 

project advisory committee and district steering committee.

KATINE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS PROJECT - Guardian.co.uk

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